Today we point and laugh at yet another ill-conceived bike design, only this one will actually make it into stores and is the spawn of big-name Brit designer Ross Lovegrove, not just some dude with a CAD app. The first thing I though when I saw the LDN (for “London”) was “How the hell do [...]
While FIFA will probably never embrace technology in the World Cup, some sporting events are warming up to its potential benefits. According to the BBC News, athletes competing in the pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will shoot laser guns rather than the traditional air pistols used in past games. The switch reduces [...]
Daily Crunch: Puft Edition
Aug 27
Gozer the Gozerian, The Traveller Has Come Mag Gun Is Like A Game Gun Crossed With A Wiimote We’re Living in The Future: Scientists Create Dry Water Rogue Robo-Chopper Flies Into Restricted Airspace Above Washington Quick Look: Mint Floor-Cleaning Robot Go to Source
Remember when Viewsonic was a respectable company? It made modest but reputable monitors that seemed to define the product category. Now the company is slapping its colorful finches onto just about any OEM device it can grab. Next on the agenda is the 7-inch Viewsonic ViewPad tablet,expected to launch at the big IFA show next [...]
Explaining the differences between DRAM and non-volatile storage is about to get that little bit harder, thanks to Viking Modular. The company’s decided to “borrow” the DIMM form factor for its latest enterprise SSD offering, equipping it with a 240-pin array to draw power from your spare memory slots. Of course, you’ll still need to [...]
NEC is working on face recognition technology that helps detecting human faces even if they have aged substantially or gained weight over the years. In a benchmark test [PDF] conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security, the technology boasted 92% accuracy from a 1.6 million person criminal database, and 95% accuracy from a 1.8 [...]
If you’ve been addicted to iBooks on your iOS device and regularly look to export your own documents to it, it’s worth noting that Apple has just released an update to its iWork productivity suite, bumping the version to 9.0.4. This latest version allows users to exercise the ePub export option in Pages, so they [...]
Highlights from this morning’s big tech headlines…. Foursquare mayor wannabes have an extra incentive to return to their pub or hot dog joint of choice. The location-based service will now let you know when you’re within a mere 10 check-ins of an elusive mayorship. [From: foursquare blog] Google’s new Gmail calling functionality has been used [...]
Have you ever been in a situation where you want more information on a specific item, but have no way to describe the strange scenario that you just saw to your friend? Kids probably bump into that problem every day, and this concept device could be just what is needed to help them find the [...]
Folks who want to get the latest information in real-time should be happy to hear that Google has made some tweaks to its real-time search engine and has also launched a dedicated site for the service. By using the search engine, users will be able to track information that is churned out by sites such [...]
